Google Currents was an
app
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developed by
Google that provided subscribers with electronic access to full-length magazine articles. Google released Currents in December 2011 and discontinued it in November 2013 when it introduced
Google Play Newsstand
Google Play Newsstand was a news aggregator and digital newsstand service by Google. On May 8, 2018, Google announced at Google I/O that Google Play Newsstand was being amalgamated with Google News. Launched in November 2013 through the merger ...
, which combined the features of Currents and
Google Play Magazines
Google Play Newsstand was a news aggregator and digital newsstand service by Google. On May 8, 2018, Google announced at Google I/O that Google Play Newsstand was being amalgamated with Google News. Launched in November 2013 through the merger ...
into a single product.
Google partnered with more than 150 publishers in order to provide electronic access to full-length magazine articles. Content was optimized for smartphones and tablets, allowing users to intuitively navigate between words, pictures and videos on both large and small screens. Currents also worked offline and offered
Google+ integration.
Google Currents Producer was a web-based self-publishing platform released along with Currents through which publishers could customize the presentation of their content on Currents. Publishers could also associate their account with
Google Analytics in order to increase their awareness of consumers’ content preferences, device use, and geographic distribution.
See also
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Flipboard, a competing mobile news aggregator
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Google Reader
Google Reader was an RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs. Google Reader grew in popularity to support a number of progra ...
, Google's former web-based feed aggregator that was shut down on July 1, 2013
References
External links
Google Currents(February 19, 2014, v2.3.0)
Currents
iOS software
Android (operating system) software
Currents
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